Elif Erginyavuz is a PhD student in International Security at the Turkish National Police Academy and holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Hacettepe University. She currently works as an international news editor at Türkiye Today. She has previously completed an internship at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) in Vienna and served as a Project Assistant at the Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM), where she contributed to research projects and publications on Middle East security and strategic affairs. Her research interests include Middle East politics and security, intelligence studies, defense and security studies, nuclear politics, and regional security dynamics.